ESoDoc 2018

Sabine Bubeck-Paaz - ZDF/ARTE (DE)

Sabine Bubeck-Paaz is a commissioning editor at ZDF (German public broadcaster) for various documentary slots on ARTE, the European Culture Channel.The TV department “Thema”, where she is deputy head of, is dealing with One Offs, Season programming, Theme Evenings, the documentary series “ARTE Discovery” and Cross Media Projects.The investigative and creative documentary projects, she is involved in are mostly international coproductions. The topics she is handling range from Culture, Science and History to Current Affaires, Human Interest and sociopolitical issues – always wishing to discover strong and surprising stories which help to understand the “conditio humana”. Lately, she has been involved in “The Act of Killing” and “The Look of Silence”, “Drone”, “netwars”, “Lanzmann”, “Sound of Torture”, “I am Ingrid Bergman”, “The Queen of Silence”.As a tutor, she participates in international pitchings and training workshops for documentary projects, organized e.g. by edn (European Documentary Network), the Documentary Campus Masterschool, IDFA...Since 2015, Sabine Bubeck-Paaz is also Head of Studies of ESoDoc (European Social Documentary), organized by ZeLIG Filmschool in Bolzano.